Magic

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“Abracadabra! Hey there! Wanna see some magic tricks?”

– Skylanders: Ring of Heroes Relationship description

Magic is one of the ten main elements introduced in the Skylanders franchise. Being the most essential of all the initial eight Elements, Magic flows through everything and every other Element would be rendered powerless without its presence. This element is associated with magenta, violet and violet-blue, and several other shades of purple.

History

Magic is the force that binds all of Skylands together. The history of Magic can be traced back to before the Arkeyans. They discovered that a substance called Quicksilver was the very essence of all magical being. They harnessed the power of Magic and combined it with technology to create huge and powerful weapons of war.

The Magic element played a part during the battle between the Skylanders and Kaos's minions. When the Core of Light was destroyed by the Hydra, the Skylanders weren't destroyed by the explosion. By the power of Magic, they were banished in balls of light and jettisoned from Skylands into space. As they hurtled through the unknown, they shrank and froze in time before landing on Earth, where they found new Portal Masters to aid their cause.

Eternal Magic Source

The Eternal Magic Source is the birthplace of all creation. Its power is so great that it cannot be contained, even by the Arkeyans. The Weapon Masters stored the Eternal Magic Source in their armory, where it was guarded for the purpose of preventing future generations from discovering their secrets.

Quicksilver

The Quicksilver is the energy that flows through all things magic. It is an ancient oil that is essential to Magic within the Core of Light and must be used to bind every other element together.

Weaknesses

The Magic and Tech elements are so strongly aligned that Magic Skylanders find their powers weakened in the presence of Tech Skylanders. This is proven true in the Battle Mode, but not in other circumstances when the Magic and Tech Skylanders are on friendly terms.

Abilities

Skylanders and enemies who are associated with this element use the art of sorcery, illusions or magical powers to take down their opponents. Even though they are stronger against those of the Undead element, characters who wield the Magic element are weak against characters who have the element of Tech in the Battle Arena. When in their toy form, most Magic-based Skylanders stand on a bronze pedestal that is marked with stars and moons. In Skylanders: Ring of Heroes, the Magic element is strong against Undead and Air, but weak to Water and Tech.

Rare Purple Dragons, like Spyro, have the ability to harness the Magic element to manipulate the other elements of Skylands. Spyro, however, prefers to master the element of Fire.

In Turret gameplay in Skylanders: Trap Team, Magic Skylanders have the elemental ability Spellbind, that temporarily stops enemies in place. In Kaos Doom Challenge, their elemental tower is a magical cauldron that fires explosive vials, that can be upgraded to have long-range homing shots, a magic circle and an exploding potion bottle that poisons enemies.

In Skylanders: SuperChargers, the Magic-aligned Portal Master Powers include reflective energy shields and the ability to daze enemies. Those are distributed in several conditions, and the names are as follows:

• Mirror Shell - Magic Skylanders get a reflective energy shield in a Magic Zone.
• Entrancing Entrance - Magic Skylanders daze enemies when summoned.
• Ensorcelling Strike - Magic Skylander attacks have a chance to daze and incapacitate enemies.
• Mystical Barrier - A chance for Magic Skylanders hit in a Magic Zone to nullify or reflect the enemy's attack.
• Mystical Desperation - Magic Skylanders get a reflective energy shield when their health is low.

Skylanders: Imaginators

Magic Imaginators can choose from four different abilities as their secondary attack:

Magic Elemental Imaginator Powers The first two of these powers are unlocked at the start of the game, the other two are unlocked by leveling up your Imaginator.
Time Bubble Mastered Time Bubble		Trick Teleport Mastered Trick Teleport		Bewildering Blast Mastered Bewildering Blast		Orb Shot Mastered Orb Shot
Original Power Press Attack 2 to slow enemies down inside a time bubble. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to slow enemies down inside a time bubble that pulses damaging energy. View Base Power		Original Power Press Attack 2 to teleport dash. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to teleport dash, and knock enemies into the air at both ends. View Base Power		Unlocked at Level 3 Press Attack 2 to send nearby enemies flying. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to drag enemies in before sending them flying. View Base Power		Unlocked at Level 5 Press Attack 2 to toss out a set of four magic orbs around you. View Upgrade Price: 1500 Press Attack 2 to also shoot out a larger orb that shoots out the smaller orbs at enemies. View Base Power

The default color schemes for Magic Imaginators include Pixie Dust, Hocus Pocus, Crystal Elixir, Presto, Aristocrat, Lilac Web and Plum Perfect. Parts unlocked by Magic Creation Crystals are from the Witch Set, including colorful garb and a familiar head.

Magic Elemental Characters

Skylanders

Core Skylanders Cobra Cadabra Charming Cobra Cadabra (Lost Islands Alter Ego) King Cobra Cadabra Déjà Vu Legendary Déjà Vu Double Trouble Royal Double Trouble Dune Bug Pop Fizz Hoppity Pop Fizz (Lost Islands Alter Ego) Love Potion Pop Fizz Punch Pop Fizz Spyro Dark Spyro Elite Spyro Legendary Spyro Star Strike Enchanted Star Strike Mystic Star Strike (Lost Islands Alter Ego) Voodood Elite Voodood Wrecking Ball Buddy Wrecking Ball (Lost Islands Alter Ego) Giant Ninjini Scarlet Ninjini

SWAP Force Movement Type Hoot Loop Enchanted Hoot Loop Trap Shadow Trap Masters Blastermind Enigma Minis Mini-Jini Spry SuperChargers Big Bubble Pop Fizz Birthday Bash Big Bubble Pop Fizz Splat Power Blue Splat Senseis Battle Class Buckshot Mysticat Pain-Yatta

Villains

Villains
	Bomb Shell
	Pain-Yatta
	Rage Mage

Magic Elemental Items

Items
	Magic Traps Arcane Hourglass (Hourglass) Axe of Illusion (Axe) Biter's Bane (Log Holder) Rune Rocket (Rocket) Sorcerous Skull (Skull) Spell Slapper (Totem)
	Magic Creation Crystals Legendary Magic Crystal (Cube)

Vehicles		Terrain
	Dragon Hunter's Scale Biter
	Mesmeralda's Wave Singer
	Soda Skimmer Nitro Soda Skimmer
	Spellslamzer's Rune Slider
	Splatter Splasher Power Blue Splatter Splasher

Battlecast Spell Cards

Playing multiple spells and gaining more and more is the nature of Magic Spells. Many attacks require one played previously, and others use energy drawn from them as an attack. An enemy fighting against a Magic user must be wary of its abilities to copy the opposing team's spells, and how quickly the team can gain ranks by combining cards.

The scrapped team spell for this element is Mysteries of Magic, a low energy spell where the player gains a spell for each Magic character on the team using a mysterious obelisk.

Abra-Kaboom		Mind Reader		Fortune Telling
Common Blast a random enemy for 50 damage.		Common Gain a copy of a non-character spell from the enemy deck.		Rare View three spells from your deck. Gain one of them.

Rippling Pulse		Warp Hat - Gear		Arcane Prism - Relic
Epic Shock a frontline enemy for 40 damage. If you've played another spell this turn, shock each other enemy for 40 damage.		Rare At the end of each turn, swap in owner.		Ultimate When you play a spell, shock a random enemy for 40 damage.

Essence Ignition		Ob's Wand - Relic		Rerun
Epic Gain a non-character spell of an enemy's element. Blast that enemy for 10 damage for each energy that card costs.		Common You characters' abilities cost 2 less.		Ultimate Gain all non-character cards played last turn.

Switcheroo		Magic Mayhem		Thought Theft
Common Swap in an enemy character. Shock it for 40 damage.		Common Randomly shock your enemies for 120 damage.		Epic Gain copies of three non-character spells from the enemy deck.

Nether Warp		Mysteries of Magic
Common Afflict an enemy for 100 damage. Give it -100 power until your next turn.		Common Gain a spell for each Magic character on your team.

For character spells: See Ninjini, Pop Fizz and Spyro

Gallery

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  Magic Moment in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Wii)
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  The "Magic Time" Achievement in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
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  The Magic Skylanders in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Spyro, Double Trouble, Wrecking Ball, Voodood) by I-Wei Huang
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  Loading screen in Skylanders: Universe with the Magic Skylanders introduced in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
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  Loading screen in Skylanders: Universe with the Magic Skylanders introduced in Skylanders: Giants
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  The Magic Skylanders in Skylanders: Universe

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  Animated version of Ob's Wand.

Trivia

• All the Core Magic Skylanders have a dodecagonal stand.
• The Magic symbol slightly resembles the cutie mark of Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
  • Coincidently, Twilight Sparkle also represents the Element of Harmony also called the Element of Magic.
  • Friendship is Magic also has a magical purple dragon named Spike.
• Magic has more variants than any other Elements.
• Magic and Tech are the only elements without Sensei variants.
• The music from Sky Schooner Docks plays in Magic elemental zones.
• This is the only element to have Enchanted Skylanders.
• Besides the Kaos element, the Magic element has the least amount of Villains.
  • It is also the only element without a Doom Raider.
    • None of the villains of this element appear as final bosses of any level in Skylanders: Trap Team either.
• The Aristocrat Imaginator color scheme's name is a reference to the association of purple with royalty.
• In Skylanders: Giants, the Magic Element has the most elemental zones in which Skylanders are stronger, counting the four Adventure Packs.
• Magic and Life are the only elements where none of their Skylanders from Spyro's Adventure had LightCore counterparts.